The Maternal and Newborn Health Programme Research & Advocacy Fund (RAF) aims to improve maternal and newborn health in Pakistan by funding research and advocacy initiatives aimed at transformational change in policies and practices for poor and marginalised women and communities RAF is an £18. 3 million, 5 year programme by Department of International Development …
Monthly Archive: April 2011
Apr
29
Reliance Digital TV challenges Tdsat order in SC
Reliance Digital TV (earlier Big TV), the direct-to-home arm of the Reliance ADA Group, today moved the Supreme Court challenging the directive by the Tdsat setting aside the notification by Trai fixing 35 per cent of the rates paid by cable operators for TV channels. Click here for complete story.
Apr
29
NBTC panel questions candidate qualifications
The panel selecting the second list of candidates for seats of the new telecom and broadcasting watchdog will meet today to finalise how to proceed after one nominee’s qualifications were recently called into question. Committee member Suwanna Sombatraksasook said the committee yesterday concluded that it had to ask MCOT to provide more information about Attachai …
Apr
29
Cricket World Cup drives surge in online viewing in India
Online video viewing in India experienced a sharp increase in February and March, driven by the Cricket World Cup, according to analyst firm comScore. In its report, comScore found that in March 2011, more than 37 million video streams were viewed on sports sites, up from 3.4 million in January. Read more: Cricket World Cup …
Apr
28
Online film market to be worth $4.44bn by 2017
A New Report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA) has predicted that by 2017 the global World Online Movies market will be worth $4.44 billion. The analyst expects growth in the post recession period along with additional drivers such as continued penetration of broadband Internet, rising consumer spending on digital rentals, and the increased adoption of …
Apr
28
STAR increases ad rates by 20%
Advertisers may have to brace for an across-the-board rate increase in television advertising, as major TV broadcasters like Zee and Colors are looking to raise ad rates by 10-20 per cent. This decision was taken due to the increased investment in technology and growth in satellite TV audiences, adding to production and distribution costs. STAR …
Apr
28
Multi-screen challenge for free-to-air platforms
If Pay TV operators make a great job of multi-screen TV, and deliver a unified and increasingly personalised service experience across all screens in the home, and if the CE vendors evolve their Connected TV offers into multi-screen Connected TV, with synchronisation between the widescreen TV and tablets, as expected, where will that leave free-to-air …
